Vocabulary Quiz Week 7 - 11th

The conductor of the orchestra was so _____________________ by the noisy audience that he stopped the performance to ask for quiet.

• redoubtable

• disconcerted

• concocted

• beneficent

• punctilious

In her clumsy efforts to be recognized as an "intellectual" she ______________ endlessly about subjects she didn't understand.

• prate

• grandiose

• mitigate

• stalwart

• reprove

Known for his elaborate plans and complicated schemes, the supervillain's defeat was at the hand of his own ___________________ plans.

• desecration

• pillage

• debase

• stalwart

• grandiose

The cyclops was a _________________________ foe, standing like an intimidating giant over ordinary men. Yet, Odysseus managed to trick him and escape danger.

• restitution

• vulnerable

• redoubtable

• disconcerted

• grandiose

As ______________________ for the damage he had caused to the family car, Phil promised to clean and polish it regularly for a year.

• punctilious

• austere

• crass

• restitution

• debase

She is so self-assured that she's not ____________ to insults and mocking remarks made by others.

• desecrate

• cadaverous

• vulnerable

• mitigate

• stalwart

How could you defile the memory of Abraham Lincoln by invoking his name in support of such a racist policy? This is a __________________ of American values!

• desecration

• stalwart

• crass

• beneficent

• prate

The master chef has _______________ a dessert so rich that it will be a menace to weight watchers throughout the country.

• infraction

• concocted

• prate

• disconcerted

• redoubtable

The woman is known and loved throughout the the community for her many ____________________ acts on behalf of the poor.

• beneficent

• vulnerable

• cadaverous

• austere

• inconsequential

Although his conduct hasn't violated any law, I consider his actions a gross ____________________ of human decency.

• concoct

• cadaverous

• prate

• vulnerable

• infraction